![]() ![]() In “The Great Awake”, the winner of the White Review Short Story Prize 2018, Armfield exposes the reality of a very modern anxiety: sleeplessness.Ī city’s inhabitants begin to lose their “Sleep”: shadow-like forms escape from characters, freeing them to remain awake without needing to rest. ![]() Julia Armfield’s new collection salt slow is innovative and often vengeful, reaching forward into a landscape that is futuristic yet almost close enough to touch. ![]() The short story, a crafty, nimble shape that runs without explanation, eagerly welcomes the weird and wonderful. They expose the darker parts of life that we’d rather not confront through plain realism, instead using magic and the unexplainable as metaphors for life’s cruelties. ![]()
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